Otto at Oxford.
Photographer: Tori Ferenc for Bloomberg Green
Weather
Climate Scientists Created a SWAT Team for Weather Disasters
Friederike Otto and her colleagues jump into action during heat waves, floods, and fires to pinpoint if global warming is to blame.
When weather disaster strikes, observers near and far ask the same question: Climate change—is it or isn’t it?
The simplest answer, yes, lacks specificity. All weather is a joint human-nature venture, because we’ve made the atmosphere hotter than it’s been in 125,000 years. Disasters are nothing new. Assigning blame for them is.